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by lurker19 15y ago
Ubuntu will never be as coherent and polished as Mac, and being #2 in this area is pointless. Ubuntu should be supporting its users before they all leave, not trying to woo people who prefer something else.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Yeah so it turns out that the education consumer doesn't tend to spend the education dollar on quality education. Consider the current mess in privately-paid higher education. Education is the vegetables on the dinner plate of life. I is a
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by lurker19 15y ago
One major problem with vouchers is that they are susceptible to fraud. Current voucher and charter schools are not posting greater successes than public schools. Government services are at risk for innefficiency due to non-incentives, but g
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by lurker19 15y ago
Merit-based access to education is an extremely debatabe proposition. Should a quality education be limited only to the already brilliant? Is it a better outcome to make a high-potential kid very well educated or a medium-potential kid basi
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by lurker19 15y ago
"Value" is a slippery term, but... Palotta, Komen, Grassroots, and other professional charity/political fundraisers that sell hope and lies to donors and spend the proceeds on administration.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Mass production and magnification is a qualitative change. Neal Stephenson knows better than he shows in this article. The
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by lurker19 15y ago
Because defunct property can be condemned.
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by lurker19 15y ago
This is a hugely important overlooked point. When the measurements have a systematic bias, a product optimized to those measurements will have systemic problems. In this case: large, easy-to-understand classes that are excessive in number a
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by lurker19 15y ago
Yes, combination, which is factorial, which is yet larger than exponential. Not sure what you mean by "geometric" in this context.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Yes but the number of nodes is n, and an "interaction" among m nodes might not be decomposable to a chain of pairwise interactions, which raises the ceiling back to exponetial (actually factorial, which is worse).
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by lurker19 15y ago
The composable programming evangelists (off-shoot from the movement to minimize mutable state) ague that the hifhest-quality software is always a small program that composed other small programs, recursively until all the desired functional
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by lurker19 15y ago
Smaller functions tend to be more reusable leading to fewer LoCc per codebase, which could overcome the bugs/LoC penalty. Also, considering the date, this research could be influenced by the bug-prone-ness of parameter passing in C as a non
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by lurker19 15y ago
"Rage" is not really the embodiment of balance.
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by lurker19 15y ago
A Myers Briggs xxTJ will be deeply offended that the wrong L is highlighted on the book cover.
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by lurker19 15y ago
There are naughtier pictures on Facebook.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Did that analysis include the cost to dig for all that copper?
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by lurker19 15y ago
This is like the old meme "If you had invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook." There's no solution to "I like using Facebook but I don't like Facebook using me." If you don't want Facebook to talk to your computer, don't let yo
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by lurker19 15y ago
Are you trying to discredit him by making fun of the way he organizes his reading to optimize his productive time and spotty Internet connectivity when traveling? Instapaper, much beloved in these parts, is a fancy modern take on the same i
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by lurker19 15y ago
What has RMS written that is not real? He knows that some non-free software is compelling and profitable, but he argues that in the long run of is unstainable. And when you look at Lion and Metro and Google Apps' only half-baked Data Liber
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by lurker19 15y ago
Mr Case is not the famous Magic guy from the OKCupid article. Mr Case was just trying to impress you by sayingg he is like the Magic guy. The actual Magic guy did a AMA on Reddit is is a much more pleasant and well-adjusted fellow than Mr C
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by lurker19 15y ago
I assure you that feature was very well tested and the high-pressure shopping cart tactic was deemed more revenue-promoting than the user-friendly alternative.
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by lurker19 15y ago
That's not part of ios, that is a library. I can't add that to someone else's app on the device. Apple should integrate it into iOS. The user of the device should be able to compose apps, not only cooperating app writers.
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by lurker19 15y ago
If not a cry for attention, what was it? A call for your attendance?
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by lurker19 15y ago
He post you are actually responding to answers your questions. Javascript and Python are mentioned.
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by lurker19 15y ago
GP was alluding to the .aap or whatever the extension was for DRM-laden tracks sold by ITMS.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Title starts with an irrelevant number.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Microsoft develops operating systems.
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by lurker19 15y ago
It is a forward looking decision. If the Ubuntu team is committed to making Ubuntu more confusing to use and introducing new bugs and breaking existing features and ignoring old bugs, it is better to jump over to a platform that issue headi
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by lurker19 15y ago
No sign of fixes for the various bugs that cause Sandy Bridge systems to crash on suspend/hibernate and at random times, and adds an extra power regression: the self-destruct button has been expanded to more systems: https://bugs.launchpad
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by lurker19 15y ago
Or you can ask for a refund of what you paid for the browser.

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